Hay-stacking derrick



UNITED STATES PATENT rrrcn.

ORSON YOUMAN, oir WALNUT, IOWA.

l HAWSTA'KING'DERRICK.

SPECIHCATION refining part nineteen Patent No. 347.755. dated August 17.1886,.

` Application filed February 23, i886. Serial No. 192,770. (No model.)

y resident of Valnnt, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa,have invented a Hay-Stacking Derrick, of which the following isafspecilication.

My object is to facilitate the handling of loose hay vand the buildingof stacks, and to save time, labor, and expense in placing hay and strawin stacks when barns are not available.

My invention consists in thc structurehereinat'tcr described, pointedout in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings.

Figure 1,1's an end view, and Fig. 2 a side view, showingr my completedevice in position as required forpractical usc.

N os. 1, 2, and 3 are wooden posts, that may vary in size as desired.They have pins a formed integral therewith or'ixed `.to their tops, toextend upward, and pulleys b,jour naled in niortises near their tops orotherwise attached. e"

c c c are brackets `rigidly fixed to a straight wooden beam, d, at equaldistances apart, to extend laterally, to produce a frame adapted to becombined with the posts when they are set up to form a derrick.

f represents adetachable metal loop or clasp fixed to the upper bar andfrec' end A"of each.

one of the brackets, by means of a 'bolt or in any suitable way, toserve as a bearing to engage one of the posts.

ff represents a metal plate or projection on each side of the free endof the lower and inclined bar of eadh bracket,that will serve as a guidein the u-pad-down movements of the complete` iframe, when'combinedjifwitli the posts. f l A h represents a hay-carrier tracksuspended :from the beam d by means of links '17,orin any suitableWay,in such a manner that a carrier,

k, vcan be readily moved thereon from one end 5' quired in carryingloaded forks to different of thefcomplete der rick vto the other, asrcpositions,an`d dropping hayif'up'on the stack a't "different points.

Ropes are attached to the brackets c and passed overL the pulleys b, .tobe fastened to cleats iixed to the lower portions ot' the posts, asrequired, Ato retainthe complete adjustable frame at any elevationdesired.

In the practical use" Of my' derrick, constrnctedA as shown anddescribed, I bring a wagon loaded with haypr straw in posit-ion,

as illustrated in Fig. l, and then, by means of a hay-fork and ltacklingconnected with the carrier k on the track 11n`nload the wagon and builda stack aside of the posts. After finishing one stack I detach the framethat supports the track and carrier, and place it on the opposite sidesof the posts, and then build a second stack before. removing thederrick.

I claim as my invention r 1. Aframe comprising two or more brackctshaving loops or clasps on their inner ends, and a straight beam and ahay-carrier track suspended parallel therewith, in combination with twoor more derrick-posts, for the pur-v poses stated.

2. The improved haystacki ng derrick com prising two or more postshaving pins attheir I top ends and pulleys near theirtops,a`detach ableand adjustable frame having lov ps and guides to engage the posts,'and asuspended hay-carrier track, guys fixed to the! pins at the to s of theposts,and ropes combined with the a jnfstabl. frame and the pulleys inthe posts, to operate in thejmanner set," forth, for

the purposes stated i ORSON YOUMAN.

Witnesses:

J. H. HENRY, D. M.- CARR.

